"one of many years of Scrabble that I hold dear"
January 10, 2023 4:06 PM Subscribe
"A Year of Scrabble. 47 games … 1,533 turns … 30,378 points. I catalogued every game we played for an entire year. The visuals that follow are visual experiments and focus on different ways of viewing personal data rather than exact details of who won or lost." Nicholas Rougeux's data visualization project and how it was made.
That is cool but not what I expected. I would like to see photos of every board at the end of the game! Also maybe short timelapse videos with the words placed in order.
Oh wait I clicked the second link and there are three boards. Which is nice. But I still want to see all of them. How common is it for 3 triple-word scores to be unused, I wonder. (2 of 3 in this teeny tiny sample)
posted by Glinn at 5:12 PM on January 10, 2023
Oh wait I clicked the second link and there are three boards. Which is nice. But I still want to see all of them. How common is it for 3 triple-word scores to be unused, I wonder. (2 of 3 in this teeny tiny sample)
posted by Glinn at 5:12 PM on January 10, 2023
We have a consolation prize called "beating the spread"—I'd like to see, when a bingo is scored, how often the opponent loses by under fifty points. "Good game, cool bingo! At least I beat the spread."
posted by not_on_display at 5:16 PM on January 10, 2023
posted by not_on_display at 5:16 PM on January 10, 2023
How common is it for 3 triple-word scores to be unused
Yes, I have a lot of nerdy stats questions about the game boards as well. I know in the games I play with n_o_d, if we've been focusing on longer words, or a really tight board we'll often miss a lot of the TWS spaces. One of the fun things about the way we play (via ISC.ro) is that you can replay games after the fact and see how they got played out, make little animated GIFs of them if you want. I think there is a missed opportunity in how many stats you could squeeze out of the games if you really wanted to. This guy's thing i clearly dataviz and I love it, but I have other questions, personally, about Scrabble stats.
posted by jessamyn at 5:23 PM on January 10, 2023 [3 favorites]
Yes, I have a lot of nerdy stats questions about the game boards as well. I know in the games I play with n_o_d, if we've been focusing on longer words, or a really tight board we'll often miss a lot of the TWS spaces. One of the fun things about the way we play (via ISC.ro) is that you can replay games after the fact and see how they got played out, make little animated GIFs of them if you want. I think there is a missed opportunity in how many stats you could squeeze out of the games if you really wanted to. This guy's thing i clearly dataviz and I love it, but I have other questions, personally, about Scrabble stats.
posted by jessamyn at 5:23 PM on January 10, 2023 [3 favorites]
How common is it for 3 triple-word scores to be unused
Not on my watch.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:39 PM on January 10, 2023 [4 favorites]
Not on my watch.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:39 PM on January 10, 2023 [4 favorites]
Bless those of you that care about this sort of thing so that I don't have to
posted by The otter lady at 8:20 PM on January 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by The otter lady at 8:20 PM on January 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
How common is it for 3 triple-word scores to be unused
Pretty common in my experience, especially if you're playing with people who play defensively, stack words horizontally on top of each other, that kind of stuff.
posted by box at 6:50 AM on January 11, 2023
Pretty common in my experience, especially if you're playing with people who play defensively, stack words horizontally on top of each other, that kind of stuff.
posted by box at 6:50 AM on January 11, 2023
Yeah like here's an example of exactly the sort box describes where we left four uncovered and it was a pretty high scoring game.
posted by jessamyn at 8:20 AM on January 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by jessamyn at 8:20 AM on January 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
It's funny, when I first saw the paths image when jessamyn posted it on mltshp, my brain wanted to insist the paths were the shape of actual turns and to get excited at how non-interacting the two players sets of plays on the board were. Took a second to get myself to settled down and realize they didn't look like board configs and something else must be going on.
I really liked the whole writeup; that process of iterating through a chunk of different ideas with the toolset you have and looking for the something that's Just Right resonates a lot for me for how I do the brainstorming portion of some of my creative work.
posted by cortex at 2:04 PM on January 11, 2023 [2 favorites]
I really liked the whole writeup; that process of iterating through a chunk of different ideas with the toolset you have and looking for the something that's Just Right resonates a lot for me for how I do the brainstorming portion of some of my creative work.
posted by cortex at 2:04 PM on January 11, 2023 [2 favorites]
No slurs! Nice!
posted by ShawnStruck at 6:52 PM on January 12, 2023
posted by ShawnStruck at 6:52 PM on January 12, 2023
Looks like someone [puts on sunglasses] scrobbled their Scrabble.
posted by rhizome at 3:00 PM on January 13, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by rhizome at 3:00 PM on January 13, 2023 [1 favorite]
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...jessamyn and I have been keeping an excel workbook of all the games we've played over the past thirteen years. 1,289 games, 927,135 total points. Jessamyn's ahead by 25 games (657-632, with four ties embedded in those numbers), and she's ahead by 1901 points.
So statistically, we're even. Even though I am losing and I so want to catch back up to herrrrrrr
posted by not_on_display at 4:23 PM on January 10, 2023 [7 favorites]